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As I read online wether on Modern Muzzleloader or other websites related to hunting and muzzleloading I often note the comments and most of them with criticism or disdain of modern hunting techniques by that I mean trail cams ,drones ,feeders usually those who are critical of these techniques often comment about the superiority of just grabbing a rifle and hitting the woods and relying on instinct, almost in a sense walking a deer down or stalking a deer down or some other animal doesn't have to be a deer those who support this type of hunting always present it as being superior or a higher level at least most of the time how they express it in written form comes off as elitist. I can't help but ask to those who hunt this way and be little others where do you hunt that way? where is the location.?
Where I'm from in Southeast Texas most of the hunting is on larger tracks of pine Timberland that is for lease or smaller private tracks that are also for lease but of course there are private lands too there are some national forests tracks that are heavily hunted and most of Texas at least the southeast part there's no such thing as land that's not hunted unless it's got Prison Walls around it if you're not hunting it's somebody else is going to be slipping in and hunting it for you you have to be vigilant about watching your property or your lease
Modern hunting techniques have evolved because of modern hunting situations, specifically available land access ,if every Muzzleloader in America had open country to hunt in I think 99% of us would grab our rifle and just hit the woods and if our body physically allowed us we would go back to stalking and just relying on instinct,, I hunt this way if I happen to be in a situation that allows me to but I sure don't consider it necessarily to be superior it's just the natural method that a human being hunting in the right environment would gravitate to
Those of you who have a hunting property whether you own it or lease it or you have scouted out a corner of some National Forest it's opening morning well let's say it's opening week would you rather have some young neophyte new Hunters that were utilizing cameras drones and anything else in the modern domain besides you or surrounding you or would you rather have a group of hunters out walking the woods trying to hunt a deer down using only instinct?
One thing about successful hunting I learned years ago I'll just call it the human footprint the footprint you leave on your property whether it's four wheelers pickup trucks and even your own two feet makes a big difference on the hunting success of that property would you on opening morning getting in your deer stand rather see the flash from a game cam across the fence or right as it gets daylight would you rather see Daniel Boone sneaking down the fence line with his muzzleloader? I'm not asking these questions to aggravate the primitive traditional Hunters I hunt that way ,but I only hunt that way if it does not affect others ,if you are fortunate enough to have enough territory and property to hunt this way and not disturb and turn all the deer nocturnal and mess the hunting up of all the property around you I fully support that, I love to hunt a big open wild thick area that I can just grab my rifle and hit the woods again I will say this I think all of us would hunt that way if we had the property to do that but if I hunt that way on most of the hunting ground in America I have only made it worse for others and that's just the truth.
It's funny how it just seems like the same attitude with those discussing this topic is expressed as those who are so fixated on traditional guns versus modern.
Where I'm from in Southeast Texas most of the hunting is on larger tracks of pine Timberland that is for lease or smaller private tracks that are also for lease but of course there are private lands too there are some national forests tracks that are heavily hunted and most of Texas at least the southeast part there's no such thing as land that's not hunted unless it's got Prison Walls around it if you're not hunting it's somebody else is going to be slipping in and hunting it for you you have to be vigilant about watching your property or your lease
Modern hunting techniques have evolved because of modern hunting situations, specifically available land access ,if every Muzzleloader in America had open country to hunt in I think 99% of us would grab our rifle and just hit the woods and if our body physically allowed us we would go back to stalking and just relying on instinct,, I hunt this way if I happen to be in a situation that allows me to but I sure don't consider it necessarily to be superior it's just the natural method that a human being hunting in the right environment would gravitate to
Those of you who have a hunting property whether you own it or lease it or you have scouted out a corner of some National Forest it's opening morning well let's say it's opening week would you rather have some young neophyte new Hunters that were utilizing cameras drones and anything else in the modern domain besides you or surrounding you or would you rather have a group of hunters out walking the woods trying to hunt a deer down using only instinct?
One thing about successful hunting I learned years ago I'll just call it the human footprint the footprint you leave on your property whether it's four wheelers pickup trucks and even your own two feet makes a big difference on the hunting success of that property would you on opening morning getting in your deer stand rather see the flash from a game cam across the fence or right as it gets daylight would you rather see Daniel Boone sneaking down the fence line with his muzzleloader? I'm not asking these questions to aggravate the primitive traditional Hunters I hunt that way ,but I only hunt that way if it does not affect others ,if you are fortunate enough to have enough territory and property to hunt this way and not disturb and turn all the deer nocturnal and mess the hunting up of all the property around you I fully support that, I love to hunt a big open wild thick area that I can just grab my rifle and hit the woods again I will say this I think all of us would hunt that way if we had the property to do that but if I hunt that way on most of the hunting ground in America I have only made it worse for others and that's just the truth.
It's funny how it just seems like the same attitude with those discussing this topic is expressed as those who are so fixated on traditional guns versus modern.